Thermal Comparison

One of the commonly overlooked but most important purchasing decisions for many users is heat dissipation and power consumption of CPUs. Whether you're building a server farm and are looking to stay within a certain power envelope or if you're building a quiet home theater PC, knowing what processors in your performance range run the coolest is quite useful.

As a new addition to our CPU reviews we're providing tables of heat dissipation of every major desktop CPU since the Athlon 500 & Pentium III 500. At the same time, we're also providing a graph comparing the heat dissipation of all of the latest CPUs (all Athlon XPs vs. Pentium 4s). To access this data just make your selection according to what CPU (core) you're interested in:

AMD Athlon | AMD Athlon (Thunderbird) | AMD Athlon XP (Palomino) | AMD Athlon XP (Thoroughbred)

Intel Pentium III | Intel Pentium 4

We hope you find this feature useful, please provide us with any feedback you may have on how to improve and expand our reviews in the future.

Power Comparison - AMD Athlon (K7 Core)

Maximum Heat Dissipation
Manufacturing Process
AMD Athlon 500 (Model 1)
42.0W
0.25-micron
AMD Athlon 550 (Model 1)
46.0W
0.25-micron
AMD Athlon 600 (Model 1)
50.0W
0.25-micron
AMD Athlon 650 (Model 1)
54.0W
0.25-micron
AMD Athlon 700 (Model 1)
50.0W
0.25-micron
AMD Athlon 550 (Model 2)
31.0W
0.18-micron
AMD Athlon 600 (Model 2)
34.0W
0.18-micron
AMD Athlon 650 (Model 2)
36.0W
0.18-micron
AMD Athlon 700 (Model 2)
39.0W
0.18-micron
AMD Athlon 750 (Model 2)
40.0W
0.18-micron
AMD Athlon 800 (Model 2)
48.0W
0.18-micron
AMD Athlon 850 (Model 2)
50.0W
0.18-micron
AMD Athlon 900 (Model 2)
60.0W
0.18-micron
AMD Athlon 950 (Model 2)
62.0W
0.18-micron
AMD Athlon 1000 (Model 2)
65.0W
0.18-micron

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Power Comparison - AMD Athlon (Thunderbird Core)

Maximum Heat Dissipation
Manufacturing Process
AMD Athlon 900 (Thunderbird)
51.0W
0.18-micron
AMD Athlon 950 (Thunderbird)
53.1W
0.18-micron
AMD Athlon 1000 (Thunderbird)
55.1W
0.18-micron
AMD Athlon 1100 (Thunderbird)
60.3W
0.18-micron
AMD Athlon 1133 (Thunderbird)
62.1W
0.18-micron
AMD Athlon 1200 (Thunderbird)
65.7W
0.18-micron
AMD Athlon 1266 (Thunderbird)
66.9W
0.18-micron
AMD Athlon 1300 (Thunderbird)
68.3W
0.18-micron
AMD Athlon 1333 (Thunderbird)
69.8W
0.18-micron
AMD Athlon 1400 (Thunderbird)
72.1W
0.18-micron

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Power Comparison - AMD Athlon XP (Palomino & Thoroughbred Cores)

Maximum Heat Dissipation
Manufacturing Process
AMD Athlon XP 1500+ (Palomino)
60.0W
0.18-micron
AMD Athlon XP 1600+ (Palomino)
62.8W
0.18-micron
AMD Athlon XP 1700+ (Palomino)
64.0W
0.18-micron
AMD Athlon XP 1800+ (Palomino)
66.0W
0.18-micron
AMD Athlon XP 1900+ (Palomino)
68.0W
0.18-micron
AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (Palomino)
70.0W
0.18-micron
AMD Athlon XP 2100+ (Palomino)
72.0W
0.18-micron
AMD Athlon XP 1700+ (Thoroughbred-A)
49.4W
0.13-micron
AMD Athlon XP 1800+ (Thoroughbred-A)
51.0W
0.13-micron
AMD Athlon XP 1900+ (Thoroughbred-A)
52.5W
0.13-micron
AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (Thoroughbred-A)
60.3W
0.13-micron
AMD Athlon XP 2100+ (Thoroughbred-A)
62.1W
0.13-micron
AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (Thoroughbred-A)
67.9W
0.13-micron
AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (Thoroughbred-B)
61.3W
0.13-micron
AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (Thoroughbred-B)
62.8W
0.13-micron
AMD Athlon XP 2400+ (Thoroughbred-B)
68.3W
0.13-micron
AMD Athlon XP 2600+ (Thoroughbred-B)
68.3W
0.13-micron
AMD Athlon XP 2700+ (Thoroughbred-B)
68.3W
0.13-micron
AMD Athlon XP 2800+ (Thoroughbred-B)
74.3W
0.13-micron

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Power Comparison - Intel Pentium III (CuMine & Tualatin Cores)

Maximum Heat Dissipation
Manufacturing Process
Intel Pentium III 500E (Coppermine)
13.2W
0.18-micron
Intel Pentium III 533EB (Coppermine)
14.0W
0.18-micron
Intel Pentium III 550E (Coppermine)
14.5W
0.18-micron
Intel Pentium III 600E (Coppermine)
15.8W
0.18-micron
Intel Pentium III 600EB (Coppermine)
15.8W
0.18-micron
Intel Pentium III 650 (Coppermine)
17.0W
0.18-micron
Intel Pentium III 667 (Coppermine)
17.5W
0.18-micron
Intel Pentium III 700 (Coppermine)
21.9W
0.18-micron
Intel Pentium III 733 (Coppermine)
22.8W
0.18-micron
Intel Pentium III 750 (Coppermine)
23.2W
0.18-micron
Intel Pentium III 800 (Coppermine)
24.5W
0.18-micron
Intel Pentium III 800EB (Coppermine)
24.5W
0.18-micron
Intel Pentium III 850 (Coppermine)
25.7W
0.18-micron
Intel Pentium III 866 (Coppermine)
26.1W
0.18-micron
Intel Pentium III 900 (Coppermine)
26.7W
0.18-micron
Intel Pentium III 933 (Coppermine)
27.5W
0.18-micron
Intel Pentium III 1GHz (Coppermine)
29.0W
0.18-micron
Intel Pentium III 1B GHz (Coppermine)
29.0W
0.18-micron
Intel Pentium III 1.10GHz (Coppermine)
33.0W
0.18-micron
Intel Pentium III 866 (Coppermine)
29.5W
0.18-micron
Intel Pentium III 933 (Coppermine)
31.5W
0.18-micron
Intel Pentium III 1B GHz (Coppermine)
33.9W
0.18-micron
Intel Pentium III 1.13GHz (Coppermine)
37.5W
0.18-micron
Intel Penitum III 1.2GHz (Tualatin)
29.0W
0.13-micron

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Power Comparison - Intel Pentium 4 (Willamette & Northwood Cores)

Maximum Heat Dissipation
Manufacturing Process
Intel Pentium 4 1.40GHz (Willamette)
55.3W
0.18-micron
Intel Pentium 4 1.50GHz (Willamette)
57.9W
0.18-micron
Intel Pentium 4 1.60GHz (Willamette)
60.8W
0.18-micron
Intel Pentium 4 1.70GHz (Willamette)
63.5W
0.18-micron
Intel Pentium 4 1.80GHz (Willamette)
66.1W
0.18-micron
Intel Pentium 4 1.90GHz (Willamette)
72.8W
0.18-micron
Intel Pentium 4 2.00GHz (Willamette)
75.3W
0.18-micron
Intel Pentium 4 2.0AGHz (Northwood)
54.3W
0.13-micron
Intel Pentium 4 2.20GHz (Northwood)
57.1W
0.13-micron
Intel Pentium 4 2.26GHz (Northwood)
58.0W
0.13-micron
Intel Pentium 4 2.40GHz (Northwood)
59.8W
0.13-micron
Intel Pentium 4 2.50GHz (Northwood)
61.0W
0.13-micron
Intel Pentium 4 2.53GHz (Northwood)
61.5W
0.13-micron
Intel Pentium 4 2.60GHz (Northwood)
62.6W
0.13-micron
Intel Pentium 4 2.66GHz (Northwood)
66.1W
0.13-micron
Intel Pentium 4 2.80GHz (Northwood)
68.4W
0.13-micron

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Some Good News: 333MHz FSB AMD Athlon XP vs. Intel Pentium 4 - Thermal Comparison
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  • judefdes - Sunday, September 21, 2003 - link

    This article says that the Athlon XP 2600+
    won't have a 333 FSb . But I just purchased an
    Athlon XP 2600+ and on the box it says 333 FSB.
    Now can someone please clarify? and will it Run
    on my DFI AD 73 Pro(VIA 266A chipset)motherboard?

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